[ILUG] Interesting article in the Economist this week...

[Braun Brelin]

Ciaran,

I quoted the article word for word.  Also, you can buy the Economist
at most shops this week for 4.90 Euros...

Braun

On 10 Dec 2005 15:47:34 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
> Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> writes:
> > According to the article, Adobe originally sued Macromedia.  Why do
> > so?  The article states:
> >
> > "Bruce Chizen, Adobe's boss, sued Macromedia.  There was no particular
> > reason for the lawsuit , he recalls, but he had been irked for some
> > time that Macromedia...had appeared to be embarassing the much bigger
> > Adobe...Mr Chizen's people found an obscure patent that Macromedia was
> > probably infringing upon and took it to court. The idea was 'to slow
> > them down a bit' smirks Mr. Chizen."
>
> That's certainly a nice quote.  Can you just confirm that that quote is word
> for word?  And can you say what the article title, date, and issue number
> is?
>
> (Thanks in advance.  I don't have an Economist subscription.)
>
> > The article is also on the Economist's web site, however, it's
> > subscription only.
>
> Or do Economist articles go publicly-viewable after a while?
>
>
> (an on- or off-line reply would be great, my questions aren't interesting
> enough for the list, but the answers might be.)
>
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